Washing-machine



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CHAS. LOVE, OF PERU, ILLINOIS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 13,692, dated October 16, 18155.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES Lovn, of Peru, in the count-y of Lasalle andState of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement inlashing-Machines; andV I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part of thisspeciiication7 in whichd Figure 1 is a Vertical section of machine takenthrough the axis of spindle and on line af Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan ofinterior of machine, with rubber removed. Fig. 3 is a plan of lowersurface of rubber R. Fig. 4 is a section perpendicular to axis of one ofrollers r on line y g/ of Fig. l.

Similar characters of reference in the several figures denote the samepart of the machine.

The class of washing machines to which my invention applies is that inwhich the machine is composed of a tub and rubber. These machines haveas general features ribs of various kinds, both radial and oblique, uponthe tub bottom and rubber disk, the operation being performed by thepassage of one series of ribs or brushes over the other, with theclothes between them, and compressed between the tub bottom and rubber;each movement of the rubber drawing the clot-hes over the plane bottomof the tub. This action causes to some extent the forcing of the linerparticles of dirt into the fabric, while the larger particles tend tocut the garment. This ill result of the tub machines varies with dierentconstrue tions of ribs and bottom, and although small in some, itnevertheless obtains in all.

To guard against this evil, and otherwise to facilitate the washingoperation are the objects of my invention, the nature of which consistsin constructing within the tub for the support of the clothes to beoperated upon, a rack or grating, composed of radial, fluted cones, eachcapable of rotation on its axis. This in connection with a brush rubberconstitute the washing apparatus, whose construction, operation, andadvantages are as follows.

In the drawing A is the cylindrical portion and B the bottom of the tub,from the center of which arises the spindle C as is usual in machines ofthis character. This spindle and small block a against the portion A ofthe tub constitute bearings for a series of iiuted cones 1', so placedthat their upper elements are horizontal; said series of cones composinga grating for the support of the articles to be operated upon. Restingupon the shoulder o of spindle C is the rubber R, having upon its undersurface a series of radial brushes D. The rubber has an alternatepartial rotation imparted to it by power applied to the bar F supportedby standards G.

The mode of operating this machine is similar to that employed forothers of like character. The clothes being placed upon the rack, thetub partially filled with water, and the rubber alternately rotated asabove stated as long as necessary. At each partial rotation of therubber a different portion of the garment is submitted to the action ofthe brushes by the revolution of each rib of the rack; and this withoutthe dragging which takes place where the ribs are fixed. Moreover ateach movement of the rubber, and consequent partial rotation of thecones the flutes so act on the water as to create successive inwardcurrents as shown by arrows in Fig. l, which currents, as they meet,cause an upward swash of water through the clothes from the spindleoutward. The eect of this action is, that as each motion of the rubberreleases particles of dirt from the garment, an upward flow of water iscreated which at once removes said particles and prevents their beingagain ground into the fabric. The dirt thus removed falls to the bottomof the tub and is prevented from again entering the garment by theelevated position of the rack precluding the rubbing of the garment overthe bottom of the tub in the various changes of position.

The advantages of this construction need not be enlarged upon it beingsufficient to state that the operation is performed in less time andwith less injury to the fabric than 10 rotation7 arranged and supportedas described, and operating as set forth for fa oilitating the Washingoperation.

In testimony whereof7V I have hereunto signed my name` before twosubscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES LOVE.

lVitnesses:

D. M. HULETT, G. M. B. MORGAN.

